[gentoo-user] portage changelogs?
New versions of portage 2.0.X are showing up in ~arch, but the Changelog entries only mention 2.1.0_alpha versions. Where should I look for what has changed, eg between 2.0.52* and 2.0.53_rc? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
James Colby wrote: I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck. Is anyone doing this that may have a suggestion/advice for me? If it's only a firewall just let your sshd run on port 80 or 443. Then connect with: $ ssh -p 80 yourhost.domain.com If your also behind a proxy (very likely), you need to tunnel ssh through http: http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html # emerge -avt net-misc/httptunnel Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] imlib error
I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for XShmAttach in -lXext... yes checking for sys/ipc.h... yes checking for sys/shm.h... yes checking whether shmctl IPC_RMID allowes subsequent attaches... yes checking X11/extensions/XShm.h... yes checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... yes checking for jpeglib.h... yes checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... yes checking for tiffio.h... yes checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11 i686) = System uname: 2.6.11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo; LANG=C MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl doc gif jpeg jpeg2k kde ncurses nls nptl opengl pam perl pic png python qt readline ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY revdep-rebuild show no errors... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it is loaded. * media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed * sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL==nvidia*, NAME=%k, GROUP=video Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? What did I forget? Thanks for suggestions and greetings Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck. Is anyone doing this that may have a suggestion/advice for me? Thanks for your replies, James Seems to me that Webmin has a shell. In other words, the machine that is running Webmin offers clients shell access via their browsers to itself. But then if the machine upon which you want to run Webmin already has a web server running on it, you'll have to configure the web server to server Webmin's pages instead of relying upon the one that's included to avoid port conflicts. HTH, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and verified that it is loaded. * media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4 is installed * sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1 is installed Additionally, I installed the coldplug package. grep nvidia /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules KERNEL==nvidia*, NAME=%k, GROUP=video Why is there no /dev/nvidia[0-7] and nvidiactl ? What did I forget? Thanks for suggestions and greetings Alex I recall reading somewhere that because of the binary nature of the nvidia driver, you have to re-emerge it after building a new kernel. Seems like it was on a gentoo.org page about the nvidia driver. HTH, Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keyboard troubles and new baselayout
Hi, After upgrading to baselayout-1.11.13-r1 i can't login to my servers direct with the keyboard. After the upgrade i have used the new /etc/rc.conf and changed the /etc/conf.d/keymaps accourding to my Belgium keyboard KEYMAP=be-latin1, and rebooted the machine ! It seems that the @ button not work on the keyboard, on the otherhand if i login with ssh i can use the @ sign. Must i change something else ? TIA -- This is Unix-Land. In quiet nights, you can hear the Windows machines reboot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:25 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Oh, and another thought. The find command can do this for you as
well, IIRC.
find . -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec command {} {}.foo \;
is the syntax, IIRC. Note the \ that exists to escape the
semicolon, therefore telling find to end processing.
find . -type f -iname '*.wav' |while read LIST; do command ${LIST}
${LIST/old/new} ; done
is another possibility.Adding limiters to find can prevent it from
recursing too deeply.
//Spider
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Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problem after a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I had Direct Rendering switched off. I was compiling AGP as a kernel module. Actually I solved the problem compiling AGP directly in the kernel with the chipset code too. I'm also using x11-drm to obtain the correct Radeon driver compiled as a module. I made an attempt to use ati-drivers package but I found that it doesn't complain my card anymore. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
On 10/11/05, gentoo_falstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problemafter a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I hadDirect Rendering switched off.I was compiling AGP as a kernel module.Actually I solved the problem compiling AGP directly in the kernel with the chipset code too.I'm also using x11-drm to obtain the correct Radeon driver compiled as amodule. Ok, good.. I'll do the same!! That or leave it radeon as module and not built in as it is now. Hopefully I'll have time to try that this afternoon. I'm using x11-drm because the HOWTO mentioned that for 2.6-kernel it should be.. If the first option doesn't solve my problem, I'll also give x11-drm a try... I made an attempt to use ati-drivers package but I found that it doesn'tcomplain my card anymore. Yah, same problem here! Cheers, Fernando
[gentoo-user] Re: conf.d/net static routes
On 10/10/2005 09:09 PM, Tim Watson wrote: Hi, I currently use a conf.d/local.start script to set my default routes: route add 10.255.255.1 dev eth0 route add default gw 10.255.255.1 I know I can set the second one using: routes_eth0=( default via 10.255.255.1 ) but I cannot work out the correct syntax for the first. Try the following format (basically just the part after route add): routes_eth0=( 10.255.255.1 dev eth0 default via 10.255.255.1 ) Works flawless on a dedicated server from 11. -- Regards, Jochen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: too many kernel problems!
Petteri Räty petteri.raty at saunalahti.fi writes: Let me just point out that your CFLAGS are kind of stupid. You have -g for producing debugging information but then you have fomit-frame-pointer, which makes debugging impossible on some machines. Yes, a vestige, on a system that begs for attention James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
On Monday 10 October 2005 23:21, James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had any luck. Is anyone doing this that may have a suggestion/advice for me? just edit sshd_config to tell sshd to listen on port 80 Thanks for your replies, James -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble
I have finally made my usb cdr to work, however I can't burn cds This was what I made it to work: Device Drivers - SCSI device support - [*] SCSI CDROM support USB support - [*] EHCI HCD [*] USB Mass Storage support [*] Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support [*] ISD-200 USB/ATA Bridge support [*] USBAT/USBAT02-based storage support Now... cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HP' 'CD-Writer+ 8200e' '0001' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * And... cdrecord -v -dao speed=4 dev=0,0,0 KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type: Removable Disk Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'HP' Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 8200e' Revision : '0001' Device seems to be: Generic CCS Disk. cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Drive found on this target Any suggestions? I see many people have the same problem, but couldn't find the solution. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage changelogs?
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 15:10, Graham Murray wrote: New versions of portage 2.0.X are showing up in ~arch, but the Changelog entries only mention 2.1.0_alpha versions. Where should I look for what has changed, eg between 2.0.52* and 2.0.53_rc? To prevent duplication of work, the physical ChangeLog is no longer being maintained. Instead, a ChangeLog will be generated from the subversion commit logs instead. A script will be ready and the/a ChangeLog added back to the tarballs again in time for the next _rc / final release. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error
Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're missing a package, but that package is not a direct dependency of kde-meta, or it would have been installed). Here's what I found: Programs That Depend On imlib app-i18n/chinput app-i18n/minichinput app-misc/dfm app-misc/endeavour dev-lang/entity dev-python/gnome-python dev-python/pygtk games-board/eboard games-kids/lletters games-kids/stickers gnome-base/gnome-libs ==kde-base/kuickshow mail-client/balsa media-gfx/frontline media-gfx/gphoto media-gfx/qiv media-gfx/scigraphica media-gfx/xzgv media-libs/fnlib media-sound/yconsole media-video/camserv net-analyzer/cheops-ng net-im/gnophone net-irc/bitchx www-client/amaya x11-misc/bbacpi x11-misc/idesk x11-misc/pogo x11-misc/xteddy x11-plugins/epplets x11-plugins/gkrellm-alltraxclock x11-plugins/gkrellm-bfm x11-plugins/gkrellm-console x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio x11-plugins/gkrellmoon x11-plugins/gkrellmouse x11-plugins/gkrellsun x11-terms/mlterm x11-themes/gtk-engines x11-wm/fvwm x11-wm/sawfish !gtk2 x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap !imlib2 www-client/w3m imlib app-editors/zoinks imlib app-office/magicpoint imlib kde-base/kdegraphics imlib mail-client/sylpheed imlib mail-client/sylpheed-claws imlib media-gfx/gimageview imlib media-gfx/iv imlib net-im/amsn imlib www-client/w3mmee imlib x11-misc/wmakerconf imlib x11-wm/icewm imlib x11-wm/qvwm Programs That Depend On kuickshow kde-base/kdegraphics kde-base/kdegraphics-meta Programs That Depend On kdegraphics-meta kde-base/kde-meta So imlib is needed because kde-meta depends on kdegraphics-meta, which depends on kuickshow, which depends on imlib. But some gif header needed by imlib is not installed or broken: (Piped to prevent quoting) Runtime Dependencies imlib-1.9.15 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | gtk = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* imlib-1.9.14-r3 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* ... aand my guess is that package would be gif = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 Is this package installed? If so, I would consider re-emerging it (and possibly imlib as well), with emerge --oneshot --ask giflib or emerge --oneshot --onlydeps --ask imlib You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice (but maybe this is not important to you). Or, you could of course check b.g.o (bugs.gentoo.org) to see if this is a known problem. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar? If you choose to roll your own solution, that would be difficult. Youve already accepted the connection, so the firewall is now configured to allow the packets back and forth only when related to your connection. Without 'exec()'ing a child process to retain the open file handle, you'll be forced to proxy the packets on your own. And since you don't want to exec an instance of apache (hm, perhaps an instance of a lightweight web proxy instead, hmm) it will be less general overhead to proxy packets on your own. Technically the proxy development is not difficult, but for newbies it can be frustrating working out the nuances of processing asynchronous data arriving on one pipe let alone two. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're missing a package, but that package is not a direct dependency of kde-meta, or it would have been installed). Here's what I found: Programs That Depend On imlib app-i18n/chinput app-i18n/minichinput app-misc/dfm app-misc/endeavour dev-lang/entity dev-python/gnome-python dev-python/pygtk games-board/eboard games-kids/lletters games-kids/stickers gnome-base/gnome-libs ==kde-base/kuickshow mail-client/balsa media-gfx/frontline media-gfx/gphoto media-gfx/qiv media-gfx/scigraphica media-gfx/xzgv media-libs/fnlib media-sound/yconsole media-video/camserv net-analyzer/cheops-ng net-im/gnophone net-irc/bitchx www-client/amaya x11-misc/bbacpi x11-misc/idesk x11-misc/pogo x11-misc/xteddy x11-plugins/epplets x11-plugins/gkrellm-alltraxclock x11-plugins/gkrellm-bfm x11-plugins/gkrellm-console x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio x11-plugins/gkrellmoon x11-plugins/gkrellmouse x11-plugins/gkrellsun x11-terms/mlterm x11-themes/gtk-engines x11-wm/fvwm x11-wm/sawfish !gtk2 x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtpixmap !imlib2 www-client/w3m imlib app-editors/zoinks imlib app-office/magicpoint imlib kde-base/kdegraphics imlib mail-client/sylpheed imlib mail-client/sylpheed-claws imlib media-gfx/gimageview imlib media-gfx/iv imlib net-im/amsn imlib www-client/w3mmee imlib x11-misc/wmakerconf imlib x11-wm/icewm imlib x11-wm/qvwm Programs That Depend On kuickshow kde-base/kdegraphics kde-base/kdegraphics-meta Programs That Depend On kdegraphics-meta kde-base/kde-meta So imlib is needed because kde-meta depends on kdegraphics-meta, which depends on kuickshow, which depends on imlib. But some gif header needed by imlib is not installed or broken: (Piped to prevent quoting) Runtime Dependencies imlib-1.9.15 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | gtk = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* imlib-1.9.14-r3 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* ... aand my guess is that package would be gif = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 Is this package installed? If so, I would consider re-emerging it (and Yes, but when I emerged it the gif USE flag was not set! imlib compiles now. possibly imlib as well), with emerge --oneshot --ask giflib or emerge --oneshot --onlydeps --ask imlib You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice (but maybe this is not important to you). Yes, I don't mind having it in the world file. Or, you could of course check b.g.o (bugs.gentoo.org) to see if this is a known problem. Hope this helps, Your replies are _always_ helpful! Holly Thanks, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error
Jorge Almeida schreef: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're missing a package, but that package is not a direct dependency of kde-meta, or it would have been installed). Here's what I found: snip So imlib is needed because kde-meta depends on kdegraphics-meta, which depends on kuickshow, which depends on imlib. But some gif header needed by imlib is not installed or broken: (Piped to prevent quoting) Runtime Dependencies imlib-1.9.15 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | gtk = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* imlib-1.9.14-r3 | = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 | = media-libs/jpeg - 6b | = media-libs/libpng - 1.2.1 | = media-libs/tiff - 3.5.5 | = x11-libs/gtk+ - 1.2* ... aand my guess is that package would be gif = media-libs/giflib - 4.1.0 Is this package installed? If so, I would consider re-emerging it (and Yes, but when I emerged it the gif USE flag was not set! imlib compiles now. I noticed that, too-- when I checked imlib and giflib on my own system, I saw: emerge -pv imlib giflib These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r3 574 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.3 +X +gif 556 kB .. which looked awful weird to me for two reasons: 1) it seems a bit nuts to me that a program called 'giflib' should need optional support for 'gif' (if you compile giflib without gif support, what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks does it do??) 2) the 'gif' USE flag is not listed on gentoo-portage.com (although maybe it's an error in the site, since the flag that *is* listed does not seem to come up in Portage): Runtime Dependencies giflib-4.1.3-r2 ! media-libs/libungif - rle media-libs/urt X virtual/x11 giflib-4.1.3-r1 ! media-libs/libungif - X virtual/x11 giflib-4.1.3 X virtual/x11 Although gentoo-portage.com is apparently correct, given the output of a search for the 'rle' USE flag: useflag rle /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:media-libs/giflib:rle - Build converters for RLE format (utah raster toolkit) which makes sense, I don't get why the 'rle' USE flag does not appear if I request to emerge giflib, while an apparently useless 'gif' USE flag does. So something definitely looks wonky here, but it's not you, and it would seem that enabling the 'gif' USE flag hacks this mess into working (insofar as imlib compiles for both of us with this flag set). Thus, problem solved, but not eliminated, it would seem. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module?yes. Ok, with this modules being loaded at boot: agpgart intel_agp radeon I still don't have rendering! So, should I try to compile all built-in the kernel? Or should I go for x11-drm? Cheers, Fernando
[gentoo-user] nfs shutdown deps
Hi people, this one is concerning the order of scripts during shutdown. Yesterday I forgot to umount some NFS shares on my notebook and shut down the computer. My ethernet devices eth0 and eth1 became stopped and _after_ that it tried to stop the nfsmount script. This is somewhat senseless, it only works with network being up and running. Well to be exact it worked this way aswell, after waiting for ~30 seconds four times (once for each share). Does anyone know a way to change this behaviour or should I file a bug? Sorry for my engrish ;) -- Jan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight placeWHACK-A-MOLE
You fix it here it breaks again over there :( Turns out the drive is OK(at least the file system), it was another drive on the same cable. But now grub wont work at all. Interesting, at first grub could boot xp and gentoo, then xp failed and now gentoo wont boot -- no matter how I set grub up, from the command-line, boot floppy, as a grub-install. It doesn't matter the partition either; there's either a crash or the thing boots to an error message such as end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0. Needless to say the floppy drive is fine. Or, The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly Um, maybe I missed something Maxim. Do you have a cdrom? If so, just boot from a knoppix cd. Comes with tons of repair tools already on it. Then you wouldn't have to struggle with trying to get that small drive into a bootable state... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
On 10/11/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module?yes. Ok, with this modules being loaded at boot: agpgart intel_agp radeon I still don't have rendering! So, should I try to compile all built-in the kernel? Or should I go for x11-drm? Cheers, Fernando Just to add a new question: - I'll need to connect a projector to my laptop. What do I need to do so? Does it connect as the second monitor? If so, then would I need to reboot to make it work? Thanks, Fernando
Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
Fernando Meira schreef: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module? yes. Ok, with this modules being loaded at boot: agpgart intel_agp radeon I still don't have rendering! So, should I try to compile all built-in the kernel? Or should I go for x11-drm? Cheers, Fernando I'm not sure I understand what you're doing here. As far as I know (and I must stress that I'm not that familiar with either the radeon driver or how it works with the Mobility chips, because I have a 9800SE that must use the fglrx drivers to get OpenGL/3D hardware acceleration/direct rendering), the radeon driver is a 2D driver that is used in combination with the kernel's DRM and the Mesa libraries to get direct rendering/3D hardware acceleration enabled. So my first question would be: What is the status of DRM in your kernel? Device Drivers=Character Devices=Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support x CONFIG_DRM: x x Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) x introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select x the module that's right for your graphics card from the list below. x These modules provide support for synchronization, security, and x DMA transfers. Please see http://dri.sourceforge.net/ for more x details. You should also select and configure AGP x (/dev/agpgart) support. x x Symbol: DRM [=m] x Prompt: Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) x Defined at drivers/char/drm/Kconfig:7 x Depends on: AGP || AGP=n x Location: x - Device Drivers x - Character devices x Now, I know that for the fglrx drivers to run, this kernel option must be *unset*, but it's clear that you can't even have the 'radeon' module if DRM is not set. However, in looking at these settings in my own kernel (and assuming that the Mobility chipset in your lappy can use these drivers to provide 3D hardware acceleration), I noticed that: - when I had /dev/agpgart set as a module, I could only build DRM as a module (the kernel gave me a message to this effect); - setting /dev/agpgart to statically compiled (Y) allowed me to build DRM statically compiled (but I could still build Radeon as a module, and intel_agp as a module under agpgart). Again, I'm no big expert on the radeon kernel drivers, but I find it hard to believe that in this situation it can be a good thing for /dev/agpgart and /DRM themselves to be compiled as loadable modules rather than statically (although the sub-functions, intel_agp and radeon, most likely *should* be compiled as modules). So I would suggest that your kernel config should look like this: * /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ALI chipset support ATI chipset support AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support M Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support SiS chipset support Serverworks LE/HE chipset support VIA chipset support Transmeta Efficeon support * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW) ATI Rage 128 (NEW) M ATI Radeon Intel I810 (NEW) Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G Matrox g200/g400 (NEW) SiS video cards (NEW) For what it's worth. You could then take agpgart out of /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (since it's no longer a loadable module, you can't load it that way anyway. but then intel_agp should hopefully load correctly). You would perhaps also want to check your build of xorg: emerge -pv xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc +font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl -pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv 0 kB As you see, opengl support is *optional*, and if not compiled, presumably the Mesa libraries that allow X to render 3D for those drivers that don't do so natively would also not be available. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] About a proxy-like idea... (was Shell through the web)
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar? If you choose to roll your own solution, that would be difficult. Youve already accepted the connection, so the firewall is now configured to allow the packets back and forth only when related to your connection. I realise that the idea would necessarily be substantially more challenging than just writing a proxy... but I'm sure it is possible. I'm guessing I'd need to interact at the IP packet level, recognise the start of a TCP stream (buffering packets as necessary) then re-play them to the right port and force the packet filter to re-direct that TCP stream. It would not be worth my time to try and make this work if it isn't already available for me to just compile and use. Technically the proxy development is not difficult, but for newbies it can be frustrating working out the nuances of processing asynchronous data arriving on one pipe let alone two. I'm confident that I could write a proxy that would do this... as you suggest - it's not rocket science. Conversely, I'm lazy enough to just use one that's already written if one exists... which, I'm guessing, is likely as I doubt I'm the first person to tackle this. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? In the meantime, the upgrade flags for install of a package uw-mailutils-2004g, which conflicts with pine. I don't want uw-mailutils-2004g, but I want pine. Ok, it's easy to upgrade manually all the packages except uw-mailutils-2004g, but then I lose the convinience with the world file, even in the future. Anyone who knows how to solve this problem? TIA Nikodemus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] free HTTPS not-anonymous proxy
Hi, Will anybody be so kind to tell me about free HTTPS _not-anonymous_ proxy? It seems like some routing problem exists on the way from my IP to target host (it is https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org, IP is determined like 82.113.61.162) I have asked alsa users - the host works. Andrew Gaydenko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs why reiserfs on boot? why 100mb boot? 10mb boot/ext2 are way enough. And since /boot is never mounted except when installing a new kernel, journaling is just overkill. Or 500mb swap - you can reduce it to 0 and use a swapfile. swapfiles are not necessary slower than swappartitions, with 2.6 kernels. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:19 +0200, Nikodemus Karlsson wrote: Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? In the meantime, the upgrade flags for install of a package uw-mailutils-2004g, which conflicts with pine. I don't want uw-mailutils-2004g, but I want pine. Ok, it's easy to upgrade manually all the packages except uw-mailutils-2004g, but then I lose the convinience with the world file, even in the future. Anyone who knows how to solve this problem? TIA Nikodemus -- Douglas James Dunn.-. 468 South 7th street /v\L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701// \\ Phear the Penguin cell: (724) 316-8266/( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
tisdag 11 oktober 2005 19.35 skrev Douglas James Dunn: Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? Here we go... jupiter ~ # emerge -uDpvt world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is blocking net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g) [ebuild UD] x11-misc/xosview-1.8.2 [1.8.2-r1] 0 kB [nomerge ] sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2 (-selinux) [ebuild U ] dev-libs/dietlibc-0.28 [0.25] -debug 547 kB [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 +alsa -debug -esd +oss [nomerge ]gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 [2.12.2] -debug -doc +ssl -static 662 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.6 [0.8.5] -debug -static 342 kB [nomerge ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.1 +arts -debug -kdeenablefinal +opengl -xinerama -xscreensaver [nomerge ] kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1-r1 +arts +cups -debug -hal -ieee1394 -java -kdeenablefinal -ldap -lm_sensors -logitech-mouse +opengl +pam -samba +ssl -xinerama [ebuild U ]sys-apps/eject-2.0.13-r2 [2.0.13-r1] +nls 0 kB [nomerge ] mail-filter/qmail-scanner-1.25-r1 -spamassassin [ebuild U ] net-mail/tnef-1.3.3 [1.3.2] 1,601 kB [nomerge ] net-print/foomatic-3.0.2 [ebuild U ] net-print/foomatic-db-20050606 [20041220] +cups -ppds 525 kB [ebuild UD] app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2 [0.7.2-r1] -gtk -gtk2 +ncurses +qt 0 kB [nomerge ] app-office/lyx-1.3.5-r2 -cjk +cups -debug +nls +qt [nomerge ] app-text/sgmltools-lite-3.0.3-r7 +tetex [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3 [3.1-r2] 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.79 [1.77-r2] 271 kB [nomerge ] dev-tex/chktex-1.6.2 -debug [nomerge ] dev-tex/latex2html-2002.2.1_pre20041025 +gif +png [ebuild U ]media-libs/netpbm-10.28 [10.20] +jpeg +png -svga +tiff +zlib 2,270 kB [nomerge ] kde-base/kde-i18n-3.4.1 +arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1 +alsa +arts +cups -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal -kerberos -openexr +spell +ssl +tiff -xinerama -zeroconf [nomerge ] kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2 +alsa +arts -artswrappersuid -debug -esd -hardened -jack -kdeenablefinal +mp3 +vorbis -xinerama [ebuild U ]kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 [3-r3] 0 kB [nomerge ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9003 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 [3.3.4-r3] +cups -debug -doc -examples -firebird +gif -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6* +mysql -nas -odbc +opengl -postgres -sqlite -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild U ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 [4.63-r3] -debug -kerberos -largeterminal -ldap +pam -passfile +ssl 3,202 kB [ebuild N] net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g 2,194 kB [nomerge ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.07 +nls [nomerge ] sys-apps/man-1.6-r1 +nls [nomerge ] sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2 +X [ebuild U ]sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r2 [4.8-r1] -build +nls -static 0 kB [nomerge ] x11-terms/xterm-204 -Xaw3d -toolbar +truetype -unicode [nomerge ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6 [nomerge ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3 [nomerge ]sys-apps/file-4.13 -build +python [nomerge ]x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal -mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv [nomerge ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r +crypt +nls -old-crypt +pam +perl (-selinux) -static [nomerge ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.17 -livecd +nls (-selinux) [nomerge ]sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r4 +nls -nousuid +pam (-selinux) -skey [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r3 -build (-selinux) [nomerge ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 +X +berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc +gdbm -ipv6 +ncurses -nocxx +readline +ssl -tcltk -ucs2 7,663 kB [nomerge ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01 [nomerge ]sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 +emacs [nomerge ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 +nls [nomerge ] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.4 -doc +emacs +nls [nomerge ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls (-multilib) +nls -nptl -nptlonly -pic -profile (-selinux) -userlocales [nomerge ]sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj -gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -static -vanilla [nomerge ] sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r10 -multislot -multitarget +nls -test [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r5 [1.8-r2] 0 kB Total size of downloads: 19,280 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing
[gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 minutes. Good reason not to update too often! I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only the sync step. Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tisdag 11 oktober 2005 19.35 skrev Douglas James Dunn: Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? Here we go... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is blocking [ebuild U ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 [4.63-r3] -debug -kerberos -largeterminal -ldap +pam -passfile +ssl 3,202 kB [ebuild N] net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g 2,194 kB Nothing wrong with that. The new version of pine depends on uw-mailutils-2004g. The first line tells you that pine versions _prior_ to 4.64-r1 do not work with uw-mailutils-2004g. That means you have to unmerge pine and then emerge it again. It will install the new pine and pull uw-mailutils as a dependency. You would think, portage could have been a bit smarter and do that itself, but it is dangerous. What if you need pine while emerge is still running and it unmerges it while you are using it? almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? Why would you want to do that? If the package, that you want to upgrade, depends on something you don't have installed it will obviously have to emerge it first. There is only one situation where it is not the case. The new package may be a dependency based on a (new) USE-flag. If it is so you can disable that USE-flag in package.keywords and not install the new package. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) pgpWGTf3kgBuM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice (but maybe this is not important to you). Yes, I don't mind having it in the world file. Better not do that. The world file should (mostly) just contain the packages that you actually directly use, not their dependencies. Having dependencies in there can later cause perplexing problems, if for example imlib or giflib were replaced by something else. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs why reiserfs on boot? why 100mb boot? 10mb boot/ext2 are way enough. Except when you have more than 2 or 3 kernels for testing and need space for those, the default (Gentoo Handbook) value is 38MB... But you're right, reiserfs is not a good fs for /boot. And since /boot is never mounted except when installing a new kernel, journaling is just overkill. Or 500mb swap - you can reduce it to 0 and use a swapfile. swapfiles are not necessary slower than swappartitions, with 2.6 kernels. Too much discussion over this (file or partition use for swap), so, I won't say anything. To the question, resize is not a very secure operation, heh, I don't like it because I had issues like having to erase and rebuild my whole partition table (thus loosing all info, thank God had all ebuilds and configs backed up to another drive), or having to swim over lost+found to find files and move them to the right location. I would use links, MHO. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
Nikodemus Karlsson schreef: Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Sometimes updating a package requires new dependent packages to be installed (which new packages the previous version of the package in your world file did not require, so they're not installed already). In fact, this is the only reason I can think of that an emerge -u world would install new packages, other than changed USE flags, which is more or less the same thing. The most likely to succeed way to eliminate most of the extra dependent packages is to do an emerge -uav(Dt) world, which will enable you to see what USE flags are enabled for the packages requested to emerge, which often will reveal what's going on without you having to do anything more (for example, if you're updating gnome to 2.12 (as I'm doing today), and in the course of the prospective emerge you notice (as I did) that 1) epiphany is being updated (normal), and 2) mozilla is being emerged (not desired), an emerge -pv epiphany shows that emerge -pv epiphany These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2 +crypt -debug +gnome -ipv6 +java +ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop +moznocompose +moznoirc +moznomail -moznoxft +mozsvg -postgres +ssl +truetype -xinerama +xprint 468 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/epiphany-1.8.2 [1.6.4] +dbus -debug -doc -firefox +python 3,275 kB looking at the USE flags for epiphany, I see that there is a 'firefox' USE flag which is not enabled. As you might imagine, I do use Firefox (since as you see, I don't have Mozilla installed), and being clever, I guess that I can replace Epiphany's dependency on 'some Mozilla browser' by enabling the 'firefox' USE flag, and that is the case: emerge -pv epiphany These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] www-client/epiphany-1.8.2 [1.6.4] +dbus -debug -doc +firefox* +python 3,275 kB The star next to the firefox USE flag indicates that it is a flag whose status has changed since I last emerged this application. And as you see, Mozilla will not be installed. For more troublesome to debug dependencies, an emerge -uavt(D) world will show what packages are requiring the additional packages to be emerged so that you can see their USE flags (which may be requiring the additional packages), or at least which packages may have new hard dependencies that require the additonal packages (which status you can look up using equery or other tools whose names I momentarily forget, or online at www.gentoo-portage.com ). In the meantime, the upgrade flags for install of a package uw-mailutils-2004g, which conflicts with pine. I don't want uw-mailutils-2004g, but I want pine. Ok, it's easy to upgrade manually all the packages except uw-mailutils-2004g, but then I lose the convinience with the world file, even in the future. Anyone who knows how to solve this problem? This looks fairly insoluble without giving something up: Runtime Dependencies uw-mailutils-2004g ! mail-client/pine - 4.64-r1 ! net-mail/uw-imap - 2004g-r1 virtual/libc Pine cannot be installed with uw-mailutils. OK, but why are we installing uw-mailutils in the first place? Programs That Depend On uw-mailutils net-mail/uw-imap Do you need uw-imap? If not, then get rid of it, and unmerge uw-mailutils, and pine will upgrade by itself. Oh, I see, the upgraded pine needs it. And uw-imap needs uw-mailutils, but not of the -r1 revision that conflicts with the upgrade to uw-imap, and pine. So then mask the versions of uw-mailutils above 2004g, and keep an eye on portage, as this looks like a bug which would need to be resolved, and I would imagine that it would be in short order. # echo =net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g-r1 /etc/portage/package.mask This command assumes that the directory /etc/portage exists already (but the file package.mask need not exist; as long as the folder exists, the file will be created and this line will be added to it; if the file does exist, the mask command will be added to it). Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
Thank you! /Nikodemus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
Mark Knecht ha scritto: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 minutes. Good reason not to update too often! I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only the sync step. Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers, Mark maybe this can interest you Cache rewrite backport http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/1105 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 minutes. Good reason not to update too often! I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only the sync step. Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers, Mark you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nfs shutdown deps
Funny, this time it worked. Any reasons for it working sometimes as expectedt but not always? Is stopping scripts done randomly? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? To me it seemed the metadata part got much bigger a few weeks ago, the updating time for the portage cache has almost tripled, and the slowness is somewhere in the middle, around the 48-52% stage. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:10:40 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? Why would you want to do that? If the package, that you want to upgrade, depends on something you don't have installed it will obviously have to emerge it first. There is only one situation where it is not the case. The new package may be a dependency based on a (new) USE-flag. If it is so you can disable that USE-flag in package.keywords and not install the new package. s/keywords/use Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) pgpPjx3fIy98n.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: help on rpm fake/virtual spec file
Hi, I want an fake/vitual rpm spec to satisfy dependencies of some commercial software with an ugly install script. My spec looks like this: Summary: Use to generate virtual package to fake /bin/sh. Vendor: bla Name:fake-bin-sh Version: 0.0.0 Release: r1 Group: foo License: GPL2 buildarch: noarch %description Create virtual package specifying /bin/sh as a virtual package. provides: /bin/sh %prep %build %install %clean %files But this does not what I want. Can some help me to fix this? $ rpm -q --provides --specfile fake-rpm.spec (none) # rpmbuild -bb fake-rpm.spec $ rpm -qp --provides /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/fake-bin-sh-0.0.0-r1.noarch.rpm fake-bin-sh = 0.0.0-r1 Thanks, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] java nightmare
java hates me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so (requires libasound.so.2) done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) Assigning files to ebuilds... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds) Evaluating package order... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps -p =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. I already reemerged dev-java/blackdown-jdk, which is the only java installed, and didn't forget to env-update and source /etc/profile. Running revdep-rebuild is useless, as a second revdep-rebuild -p will still give the same error message. And why should something named /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so exist? I don't have the alsa USE flag set, for the excelent reason that this is an office workstation with no sound equipment whatsoever. Could it be that somehow the ebuild is ignoring this point? I unset browserplugin before emerging, just in case this was pulling sound support. Still, mozilla was set; the emerge says that the former USE variable is the latter renamed... What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight placeWHACK-A-MOLE
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:32 pm, maxim wexler wrote: But now grub wont work at all. there's either a crash or the thing boots to an error message such as end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0. Needless to say the floppy drive is fine. Or, The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly Maxim I had a similar thing happen when grub went thru an upgrade on the box that I missed. Next boot resulted in grub complaining. Re-installing grub to the MBR fixed it (using the version of grub that was installed on the box, not the grub on the knoppix cd). Have you tried that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... cornholio ~ # df -h /boot FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 99M 46M 49M 49% /boot cornholio ~ # ls /boot System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 System.map-2.6.13.2 config-2.6.12.3-firewall vmlinuz-2.6.11.7 System.map-2.6.11.11 boot@ config-2.6.12.4 vmlinuz-2.6.12 System.map-2.6.11.6 config-2.6.11 config-2.6.13 vmlinuz-2.6.12.2 System.map-2.6.11.6-bridgeconfig-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 config-2.6.13.2 vmlinuz-2.6.12.2-firewall System.map-2.6.11.7 config-2.6.11.11 grub/ vmlinuz-2.6.12.3-firewall System.map-2.6.12 config-2.6.11.6 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 vmlinuz-2.6.12.4-firewall System.map-2.6.12.2 config-2.6.11.6-bridge kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 vmlinuz-2.6.13 System.map-2.6.12.2-firewall config-2.6.11.7 lost+found/ vmlinuz-2.6.13.2 System.map-2.6.12.3-firewall config-2.6.12 vmlinuz-2.6.11.11 System.map-2.6.12.4 config-2.6.12.2 vmlinuz-2.6.11.6 System.map-2.6.13 config-2.6.12.2-firewall vmlinuz-2.6.11.6-bridge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On 10/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 minutes. Good reason not to update too often! I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only the sync step. Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers, Mark maybe this can interest you Cache rewrite backport http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/1105 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Interesting, but very new as I see it. Scary. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 minutes. Good reason not to update too often! I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only the sync step. Thanks in advance for any info. Cheers, Mark you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. Thanks for the info though. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. Trust it, Mark, it works great! I've been using CDB for like 9 months now. I've had only one problem with it (the recent python 2.3 to 2.4 upgrade, I missed the fact that I was to run python-updater, so the CDB stuff was not automagically upgraded on it's own). It's very quick, EIX supports it, and it works like a charm. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:43 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: To the question, resize is not a very secure operation, heh, I don't like it because I had issues like having to erase and rebuild my whole partition table Resizing a filesystem doesn't affect the partition table, you change that separately. Enlarging a partition, which is what you need to do, is intrinsically safe, because all you are doing is making the extra space on the partition available to the filesystem, no data has to be moved. -- Neil Bothwick SUBLIMINALsendmoneyTAGLINE pgpY57WVI5yYg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:20:56 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. I found it very straightforward. What's the worst that can happen? Your portage tree gets messed up, which can be fixed with emerge --sync. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke. pgpXPrxIuLaDE.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How to wipe windows for gentoo w/possibility of restoration...
I've got a laptop. It has a working win xp system on it (plus all apps, etc). I want to wipe windows off of it and put gentoo on it. But, after gentoo is up and running, I'd like to create a partition to restore the windows partition to. Laptop has a CD burner for storing the data. But I'm kinda at a loss on how to proceed. Obviously it is more complicated than just doing a fresh install because I'd lose all of the applications, etc. (including the installed drivers, registry, etc.). Anyone out there know if such a thing is possible? Thanks! Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:01 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: java hates me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so (requires libasound.so.2) done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) Assigning files to ebuilds... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds) Evaluating package order... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps -p =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02 Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. I already reemerged dev-java/blackdown-jdk, which is the only java installed, and didn't forget to env-update and source /etc/profile. Running revdep-rebuild is useless, as a second revdep-rebuild -p will still give the same error message. And why should something named /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so exist? I don't have the alsa USE flag set, for the excelent reason that this is an office workstation with no sound equipment whatsoever. Could it be that somehow the ebuild is ignoring this point? I unset browserplugin before emerging, just in case this was pulling sound support. Still, mozilla was set; the emerge says that the former USE variable is the latter renamed... What to do? Can I safely ignore the revdep-rebuild messages? I think you can safely ignore that (unless you're running java applications that use sound/alsa). the java packages are binary, that means that you don't compile it according to your use flags, you install the whole package, so some libraries (like libalsasound.so) will complain if you don't have alsa support. I'm having this problem with opera and libXm but I just ignore it. btw, is there anyway to tell revdep-rebuild to ignore a package? it's really not comfortable to run revdep-rebuild -p and then manually re-install the packages that complain (because I don't want it to re-install opera every time). Bye -- Haim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:16:52 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:08, bruce harding wrote: I've got 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Registered ECC. Is it possible that this if I ran memtest86+ for 2 days straight and found no error that the memory could still be defective? I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. Let me know what you think. -- yes it is completly possible. But it is also possible, that your PSU is not powerfull enough. A big compile needs a lot of processing power and stresses the ram, so a lot of current is needed - and some PSUs aren't able to cope with such a load -exspecially if they are cheap and/or a little bit older. Try another PSU, do you still have problems, RMA the ram. Memtest86(+) is known not to find all errors. Actually, I'm on my third PSU I now own a dual rail, 650watt SilverStone. And I don't get any errors. The compile just appears to stop, but if I do top the thread for the compile is running at 90%. I got off the phone with Kingston and they are going to replace the ram. I hope that solves my problem. == bruce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri
On 10/11/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira schreef: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that meanthat it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as module? yes. Ok, with this modules being loaded at boot: agpgart intel_agp radeon I still don't have rendering! So, should I try to compile all built-in the kernel? Or should I go for x11-drm? Cheers, FernandoI'm not sure I understand what you're doing here. As far as I know (and I must stress that I'm not that familiar witheither the radeon driver or how it works with the Mobility chips,because I have a 9800SE that must use the fglrx drivers to get OpenGL/3D hardware acceleration/direct rendering), the radeon driver is a 2Ddriver that is used in combination with the kernel's DRM and the Mesalibraries to get direct rendering/3D hardware acceleration enabled.So my first question would be: What is the status of DRM in your kernel?Device Drivers=Character Devices=Direct Rendering Manager (XFree864.1.0 and higher DRI support) It was DRM [=m]. All (agpgart, inter_agp, DRM, radeon) were [M]. Now, I know that for the fglrx drivers to run, this kernel option mustbe *unset*, but it's clear that you can't even have the 'radeon' module if DRM is not set. However, in looking at these settings in my ownkernel (and assuming that the Mobility chipset in your lappy can usethese drivers to provide 3D hardware acceleration), I noticed that: - when I had /dev/agpgart set as a module, I could only build DRM as amodule (the kernel gave me a message to this effect);- setting /dev/agpgart to statically compiled (Y) allowed me to buildDRM statically compiled (but I could still build Radeon as a module, and intel_agp as a module under agpgart).Again, I'm no big expert on the radeon kernel drivers, but I find ithard to believe that in this situation it can be a good thing for/dev/agpgart and /DRM themselves to be compiled as loadable modules rather than statically (although the sub-functions, intel_agp andradeon, most likely *should* be compiled as modules). So I would suggest that your kernel config should look like this: * /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ALI chipset support ATI chipset support AMD Irongate, 761, and 762 chipset support AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support M Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support SiS chipset support Serverworks LE/HE chipset support VIA chipset support Transmeta Efficeon support* Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (NEW) ATI Rage 128 (NEW)M ATI Radeon Intel I810 (NEW) Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G Matrox g200/g400 (NEW) SiS video cards (NEW) Ok, so I do as you say, change agpgart and DRM to be statically and leave inter_agp and radeon as modules. Exactly as you mention. For what it's worth. You could then take agpgart out of/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel- 2.6 (since it's no longer a loadablemodule, you can't load it that way anyway. but then intel_agp shouldhopefully load correctly). Yes... done! You would perhaps also want to check your build of xorg:emerge -pv xorg-x11 Yes, I have opengl USE flag active and xorg-x1 compiled with it. Hope this helps,Holly Well, I really appreciate it, but it's still not working. All the same, no errors and no rendering. Xorg.0.log does not report any error, dmesg reports: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at :00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at :00:00.0 into 1x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at :01:00.0 into 1x mode and lsmod: radeon 60800 1 intel_agp 15260 1 So.. don't know what can be wrong... To add: now I lost the booting report!! After disabling DRM, FM support (vesa-fb + ati + ddc/I2C) for trying fglrx driver.. I can't get back the booting screen.. just a black screen from Grub to login manager.. The funny part is that I re-set all these kernel option.. well, all less one, support for FB splash (inside /Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Support for framebuffer devices/), which I can't find anymore.. weird.. very weird... any clue? to any of the problems? Thanks, Fernando
Re: [gentoo-user] How to wipe windows for gentoo w/possibility of restoration...
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:06:41 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I've got a laptop. It has a working win xp system on it (plus all apps, etc). I want to wipe windows off of it and put gentoo on it. But, after gentoo is up and running, I'd like to create a partition to restore the windows partition to. Why remove it? Wouldn't it be easier and better to resize your Windows partition and install Gentoo in the remaining space? -- Neil Bothwick If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. * Wright pgpozF39y7YAh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
FWIW, I had the same problem, (compile would hang, no error, no message, nothing), while installing a dual AMD64 system last week. I got past it by using kernel switches to force single CPU (nosmp), and disabling the apic (noapic), during the install. Don't know for sure which switch resolved it, or if they were both needed. May not help you, but thought I'd mention it just in case. Regards, Bob Young -Original Message- From: bruce harding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:13 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:16:52 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:08, bruce harding wrote: I've got 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Registered ECC. Is it possible that this if I ran memtest86+ for 2 days straight and found no error that the memory could still be defective? I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. Let me know what you think. -- yes it is completly possible. But it is also possible, that your PSU is not powerfull enough. A big compile needs a lot of processing power and stresses the ram, so a lot of current is needed - and some PSUs aren't able to cope with such a load -exspecially if they are cheap and/or a little bit older. Try another PSU, do you still have problems, RMA the ram. Memtest86(+) is known not to find all errors. Actually, I'm on my third PSU I now own a dual rail, 650watt SilverStone. And I don't get any errors. The compile just appears to stop, but if I do top the thread for the compile is running at 90%. I got off the phone with Kingston and they are going to replace the ram. I hope that solves my problem. == bruce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:13, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... and the OP said, that he is doing rescue work, not testing kernels. So 100mb for /boot sounds pretty pointless. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:20, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. I have done the python 2.3-2.4 update without any breakage. In fact, there were NO problems at all - and the syncs have become amazingly fast. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place
Thanks for all your suggestions. I look forward to implementing them just as soon as my 120G gets back in service(if it does). BTW anybody know how long Maxtor warranties their cheap ATA drives? The 120 in question I bought from tigerdirect.ca about 6mos ago. --- Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:13, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... and the OP said, that he is doing rescue work, not testing kernels. So 100mb for /boot sounds pretty pointless. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:18 pm, Mark wrote: Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go through all the settings again? 1. cd /usr/src 2. tar xjf /path/to/downloaded/kernel.tar.bz2 3. cd linux-new-kernel 4. make mrproper 5. cp ../path.to.old.kernel/.config ./.config 6. make oldconfig 7. make make modules_install cp .config /boot/config-new-version cp System.map /boot/System.map-new-version cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-new-version /bin/rm -f /usr/src/linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-new-kernel /usr/src/linux vi /boot/grub/menu.lst A little terse, but yes. make oldconfig pulls in your existing .config file. It will prompt for new offerings not part of your old .config, usually the suggested default at the prompt is the way to go. When managing your own kernel, don't forget to a) install the modules (plus any other third party modules (i.e. nvidia driver modules) or your new kernel will give you grief, and b) recreate your /usr/src/linux symlink to point at the new kernel. Those steps above are the ones that I typically take (yes, folks will say to use make install, but I'm still from the old school. The only part of the rote script above that I'm unsure about is the System.map stuff. I know it gets generated when the kernel is built, I know most systems have them in /boot, but for the life of me I never a) found out what it was for, b) found out if it had to be in /boot and if it had to be a special name (i.e. /boot/System.map explicitly), and c) why I even bother in the first place. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:35, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:18 pm, Mark wrote: Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go through all the settings again? 1. cd /usr/src 2. tar xjf /path/to/downloaded/kernel.tar.bz2 3. cd linux-new-kernel 4. make mrproper 5. cp ../path.to.old.kernel/.config ./.config 6. make oldconfig 7. make make modules_install cp .config /boot/config-new-version cp System.map /boot/System.map-new-version cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-new-version /bin/rm -f /usr/src/linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-new-kernel /usr/src/linux vi /boot/grub/menu.lst or even better: make all modules install install which will cp bzImage to /boot/bmlinuz-yourversion, makes an symlink from vmlinuz to vmlinuz-yourversion and a vmlinuz.old symlink to your previous used kernel. So all you need to have in grub.conf is a vmlinuz and a vmlinuz.old entry to choose between your latest and the previous kernel. Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:39 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. Come on, Volker, don't begrudge me a little fun ;-) I like seeing my 12 kernels listed all nice and neat in the list. Maybe one day I'll have a need to revert back to that 2.6.11 kernel. Probably not, but at least I know it's 2.6.11 and not 'current kernel' vs 'previous kernel'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:50, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:39 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. Come on, Volker, don't begrudge me a little fun ;-) I like seeing my 12 kernels listed all nice and neat in the list. Maybe one day I'll have a need to revert back to that 2.6.11 kernel. Probably not, but at least I know it's 2.6.11 and not 'current kernel' vs 'previous kernel'. at that point hitting 'e' and editing the command prompt should be sufficient and funny enough ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01:18, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:20, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. I have done the python 2.3-2.4 update without any breakage. In fact, there were NO problems at all - and the syncs have become amazingly fast. Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge refused to work, I had to comment both lines in /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:58 am, Francesco Talamona wrote: Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge refused to work, I had to comment both lines in /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. That was the part I mentioned earlier. I think if you caught the note to run python-updater after the python upgrade it would have covered this. Basically what happens is that, without running python-updater, you've got a number of python packages installed in /usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages (or something like that). After the python 2.4 upgrade, those packages are no longer available, as 2.4 is looking for them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages (or whatever). Running python-updater is supposed to get those old guys moved from 2.3 to 2.4 so everything works. Unfortunately if that message about running python-updater floats by in the middle of updating a bunch of packages it is easy to miss, and before you know it you think your system is majorly screwed. I posted a message to gentoo-dev asking for an enhancement to portage that would collect the messages generated in the pkg_postinstall phase and re-report them after all packages have completed. Fortunately it is already an enhancement that is on the list, but it's not clear when it will be released. In the meantime I'm going to check out ENOTICE http://dev.gentoo.org/~eldad/ to see if it will work as a short-term solution. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
